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else /els/ a. | ad. | phr. I a. [常用于疑问代词、不定代词后]其他的,别的,另外的 What else did he say? 他还说了些什么? Who else did you see? 你还看见了谁? Don't do anything else silly. 别再干蠢事了。 It must have been somebody else. 肯定是其他什么人。 Does anybody else want to look at this book? 还有其他人想看看这本书吗? Everybody else but me has gone to the party. 除了我其他人都去参加聚会了。 There's no one else to compare with him in this respect. 在这方面没有其他人比得上他。 You should put your honour above all else. 你应当把荣誉放在其他一切之上。 Not much else is known. 其他都不太清楚。 We'll have to find some place else to do business. 我们得找别的地方去做生意。
II ad. 1. [常用于疑问副词后]其他,另外 Where else can I go? 我还能去别的什么地方呢? How else could I have acted? 我不那么做还能有别的办法吗? I can't come on Tuesday. When else can we meet? 我星期二不能来。我们另外什么时候能见面? It happened here and nowhere else. 事情发生在这里,而不是其他什么地方。 It was time he applied somewhere else. 他该往别处去申请了。 However else we may differ, we have in common the fact that ... 不管其他方面我们会有什么不同,我们有一点是相同的,那就是… 2. 否则,要不然 Run, (or) else you will be late. 快跑,否则你要迟到了。 He cannot be in his right senses, else he would not make such wild statements. 他肯定神智不清,要不然就不会作出这样狂妄的声明了。
◇注解somebody else, anybody else, who else 等的所有格形式为 somebody else's, anybody else's, who else's 等。如: It's somebody else's money. I don't know who else's hat it could be. It couldn't be anybody else's. 等。但 who else 后如果不紧接名词,那么其名词性所有格形式可以为 who else's, 也可以为 whose else。如: I don't know who else's it could be. 或者 I don't know whose else it could be. [< OE elles; 与 OHG eli- other, Goth alja, L alius, Gr allos 有关] phr. or else 1. [表示警告或威胁] 否则将承担一切后果 Hand over the money or else. 把钱交出来,要不够你受的。2. 否则,要不然 |